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Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying (www.thenerve.news)
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[+] -7 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

And people who believe the core mechanism in large language models to be AI

What does that mean? Transformers aren't AI? What? I don't think you understand this as much as you think you do.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago

    Think all you want, statistical text prediction has nothing to do with AI. The "intelligent" algorithms are all in the pre- and postprocessing steps that make the output sound good enough to fool gullible people into assumong intelligence.

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